ABOUT THE FIRM

Lambert and Nelson, PLC is an extremely energetic and hard-working firm of litigators representing numerous individual clients nationwide in a quest to obtain compensation for victims but also in an attempt to prevent harm to others. We represent injured people, employees, and consumers in their fight for justice and compensation in state and federal court. The firm focuses its practice on serving the needs of individuals, rather than corporations or businesses, in areas such as class actions, personal injury, toxic torts, aircraft crash litigation, helicopter crash litigation, wrongful death, products liability law, mass disasters, complex and multi-district litigation, pharmaceutical drug liability, chemical and petrochemical plant explosions/releases, railroad litigation, catastrophic injury, maritime personal injury and wrongful death, securities litigation, whistleblower/Qui Tam actions, Jones Act litigation including offshore injuries involving crew boats, tugboats, barges, commercial and sport diver litigation, pipeline explosions, and consumer fraud litigation.

Aviation law involves a mix of products liability law, which requires expertise in the design of the aircraft, combined with an understanding of maintenance or repair negligence, as well as pilot error. Hugh Lambert’s degree in engineering and his extensive aviation training and experience give the firm the specialized knowledge needed to secure liability verdicts and substantial damage awards and settlements for the firm’s clients. As a result, many of the firm’s cases are referrals from other law firms, including some of the most highly respected law firms in the world, because of the firm’s expertise in complex litigation.

The firm often creates sophisticated dynamic computer generated evidence to reconstruct the incident to help the judge and jury understand complex issues and the cause and magnitude of the losses sustained by the plaintiffs.
Founded in 1977 by Hugh P. Lambert and Linda J. Nelson, the firm’s highest priority has always been communication with its clients. The attorneys and staff have varied backgrounds which combine to enable Lambert and Nelson to effectively investigate and resolve a wide range of complex cases. The firm has a twenty-seven year history of professional excellence and trial experience.

In the past twenty-seven years, the firm has tried or settled numerous multi-million dollar cases. Recently, the firm was instrumental in a nationwide class action that resulted in a settlement valued by the Court at over one billion dollars in benefits to the class members.

Lambert and Nelson maintains a traditional law library, as well as a state-of-the-art computerized legal research data bank. Lambert and Nelson can instantly access the latest federal, state or local laws, rules, regulations and jurisprudence. The firm provides experienced leadership in highly complex, innovative litigation, as well as success in legal advocacy, that has made a positive impact on our society. Attorneys from the firm have appeared in courtrooms across the nation on behalf of those who have been wronged. At Lambert & Nelson, we represent you and we get results.

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